It's funny how things that only piqued marginal interest before suddenly become that much more desirable when they come easily within your grasp.
I'm talking about my new PC, which is now up and running. It's decent - by no means a beast - and I have had a laptop for the past two years but this is the closest thing I've had to what you might call a 'Gaming PC' for a while. Suddenly,
Spore Creature Creator became a must-buy and I find myself wasting an evening trying to create a Shoggoth. I got extremely interested in how well it runs
Crysis (turns out it runs okay). A friend who has been nagging me to get on
CoD4 online with him - his temptations are echoing in my head. I've started paying more attention to PC game news, just because there's no longer this £300 barrier access. I've always been into both PC and console gaming but I was amazed to see how out of touch I'd become just because I personally couldn't play this stuff.
I felt the same way about the Wii. When I bought it a few months ago, I was slightly dubious about my decision because although I knew there were a few games I wanted, I didn't know that there would be a few more games after that. As it turned out, once I actually owned the thing, lots of games became interested that I never would have found out about otherwise.
Zack and Wiki, Boom Blox, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and many more, I haven't regretted my purchase at all.
Of course, this is like a benign form of fanboyism. I find it easy to list reasons that I don't have, say, a PS3, but if I
had one I'm sure that I'd find just as many reasons that justify that purchase for me. The reason that it's benign - in other words it doesn't turn me into a slavering forum-monkey that flings feces at anyone who didn't make the same purchasing decisions as me - is that I, unlike those I just described, am somewhat aware of the psychological processes going on here. It seems that our tastes as gamers are motivated not only by the sorts of games we like to play but also our individual circumstances. I imagine that if you were to leave a PS3 abandoned on the doorstep of even the most ardent of 360 fanboys (or vice versa) they'd learn to love the little tyke after the initial wave of shock and displeasure passes.
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Though, I bought less games, the two consoles both received equal playtime. Although, the Gamecube got more multiplayer on it, Melee and Double Dash and all.
I supposed I'd be that way with the PS3 too, though, as of right now, I just want Afrika.
My Wii and 360 can take care of the rest, but I need Afrika.
:D
Me, I love PC gaming. It's my platform of choice, but I still regularly play other consoles. Having a rig that runs well really makes you appreciate just how much catching up the consoles have to do.
Have you played The Witcher yet? Or Oblivion with mods? Or Trackmania even? Playing Oblivion without mods to fix stupid design decisions (like the stupid meta-game thinking the levelling system requires) is an exercise in banality.
I'm building a new PC next month so I can play Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, Borderlands and other. I'm actually really excited about lots of new and upcoming PC games.
And I do have oblivion - at the time of release I had to download that mod that someone made to work with version 1.0 pixel shading to make it just about playable (for a while I was borrowing a slightly better PC to play it on, too.) I'd be interested in what mods are out for it now, because I did test it out on the new rig and it runs beautifully (though already shows its age - scary)
Adultswim: Eh, I don't know. I can see advantages to both. Besides, I had as much fun playing the Orange Box on 360 as I ever did playing Portal, HL2, etc on PC.